Craig Watson
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first heard May 2026
last heard 17 Aug
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On December the first, the Imperial Conference resolved to go to war.
The following day, the date of the attack was fixed as December the eighth, december the seventh by American time.
In one sense, this was the culmination towards which the entire previous decade had been moving.
The war in China had started as a localized conflict, then expanded into a continental one.
And was now about to become something much larger still.
A truly global war, stretching from the North Atlantic to the Western Pacific.
China's long, lonely resistance would suddenly gain new dimensions and new allies, though not the ones Chiang Kai shek had spent four years trying to cultivate, and not under circumstances he would have chosen.
In the early morning of december the seventh of nineteen forty one, the US Pacific Fleet lay anchored at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, its sailors and officers still largely asleep as dawn crept across the Pacific.
The attack did not come without warnings.
American Japanese diplomats had been locked in increasingly desperate negotiations throughout the autumn, each side hardening its position until no room remained to maneuver.
Washington had demanded that Japan withdraw from China, a condition Tokyo viewed not as a serious opening offer, but as a demand for national humiliation.
A call to repudiate four years of brutal war, hundreds of thousands of casualties, and the entire ideological foundation upon which Japanese militarism rested.
No agreement was possible.
Both sides privately knew this.
The strike force assembled in secret was formidable.
The Kidobutai.
Six aircraft carriers, the Akagi, Kaga, Soryu, Hilyu, Shukaku, and Zoikaku, had sailed under strict radio silence across the North Pacific, launching their aircraft in two successive waves before the American base had any meaningful chance to respond.
The first wave of approximately one hundred and eighty-three planes swept in just before eight AM, targeting the rows of battleships moored along Battleship Row and the military airfields at Wheeler, Hickam, and Fort Island simultaneously, ensuring that American aircraft could not scramble in time to mount an effective defense.
A second wave of about 170 planes followed less than an hour later, pressing the attack on the damaged ships and the harbor installations.
The destruction was staggering.
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